[Arm-netbook] Repartitioning the internal flash

[JLB]

On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:48 AM, JLB <j at twu.net> wrote:
>> Incidentally, am I the only one who is annoyed that with a meagre (by
>> modern standards!) 2GB of internal flash, they still bothered to partition
>> it into two large 'chunks' (mmcblk0p2 and mmcblk0p3)? Is there any sane,
>> safe, reasonable way we could repartition this (i.e. to combine p2 and p3
>> into one bigger partition) without ending up with a netbook-shaped brick?
>
> reasonable: yes. on the debian-lenny rootfs i installed parted.
>
> safe: no way to tell.  we really need to know the procedure that's
> been executed under u-boot.  does it blow away the partitions? (does
> anyone know a way to check - volume serial numbers for example?)  does
> it merely reformat p2?
>
> y'know what: sod it, i'm going to try it.

Whuh oh. Famous last words. ;)

May the Source be with you!

>
> l.
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